Certainly YOU know that

… Robert Burns’s1 poems and verses were translated in Russian by M. Lermontov, I. Kozlov, M. Mikhailov, E. Bagritsky and others.

… Robert Burns’s poems and verses inspired Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn and other composers who wrote music to them.

… the tunes to Robert Burns’s songs were written by D. Shostakovich, N. Myaskovsky, A. Alexandrov, Y. Levitin, and a number of other Russian composers.

Ex.9. Can you say that this quotation has much to do with Robert Burns’ poetry?

“If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree

it had better not come at all.”

Keats

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Ex.1. Read the story attentively and quickly. Prove that Johnson didn’t say any bad words to the woman.

Samuel Johnson

One day Doctor Samuel Johnson, the famous author of the first English dictionary, was at a fish market with his friend. He assured him that he could make a woman who sold fish angry.

“I will not say even one bad word to her,” he added. Then he came up to one of these women, raised her fish to his nose and silently showed that it had a bad smell. The woman attacked him in words that I cannot repeat here.

The Doctor answered:

“You are an article, woman.”

“You are an article yourself,” she cried.

“You are a noun, woman!” Johnson continued. You are a pronoun, I say.

The old woman could not understand these words, so she shook her fist at him and called him many bad names.

“You are a verb,” he continued, “an adverb, an adjective,” and each part of speech made her angrier and angrier because she did not know their meaning and did not know how to answer.

Ex.2. Reread the text to find out

What made the woman angry;

If Johnson mentioned all parts of speech.

ERICH REMARQUE1

Ex.1. Read the story attentively and quickly. Say

	1) the novelist could speak English;
if
	2) the girl was interested to know those four sentences.

When Erich Remarque, the well-known German novelist, was still a young man, he was once introduced to an American girl who was travelling in Germany. Speaking in German, the girl asked Remarque why he had never visited the United States. His answer was that he couldn’t speak English. In fact, he knew only four sentences, he said.

“What are those sentences?” asked the girl, much interested.

Speaking slowly, with a strong German accent, the writer said: “…”

“Why,” cried the girl, “with these sentences you could tour the United States from Maine to California.”

Ex.2. Read the story attentively again.

Try to guess those four sentences Erich Remarque knew.

Ex.3. Compare your variants to your classmates’. Which of them do you consider correct?

Ex.4. Consult the key and say which variants are the closest to the original.

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